You sound like my friend. [A nervous, pained laugh.] He thinks I'm not living life because I do not live it as he does. Even if I wanted to, I don't know if...if anyone would have me, at my age, and with such a nervous, restrained temperament.

[He looks to be forty at most but when younger men are the fashion one feels old rather quickly.]

You are married? [That doesn't quite click with Basil entirely but he does nod sympathetically.] Lots of men find themselves in marriages but pining after others, I cannot judge you. Honestly, I think some men expect that they will have one life at home and another outside of it. I am a poor liar and it seems cruel to marry someone one cannot love.